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Elizabeth's Blog Post #11

 EElizabeth’s English Blog #11

By: Elizabeth Crotts

 

Dear Reader, you’ve made it to my eleventh post and I have made it over halfway to completing my English class assignment. Hooray! If you were to tell me when I was first given this assignment I would enjoy it, I would probably call you crazy. Somehow in the last month, I have fallen back into writing for myself. I don’t write to please my professor, my parents, or even you. I have finally found passion and excitement for my writing.

Writing has always been an oasis for me. I have developed this skill since I was the young age of five years old. I have written for pleasure and for projects. Throughout the years, I lost a spark for writing. I only wrote essays for school or speeches for others. I have been consistently told the narrative that I am good. I am a good writer, I am a good photographer, I am a good person. I appreciate the acknowledgment from the people around me, but I hunger for more. I want to be better. I want to write with no bounds. I want to throw out all the textbook grammar rules and write something meaningful, something that produces change. I want to write something so powerfully impactful, that every reader finishes reading and doesn’t say “That was good” and continues living the rest of their lives unbothered by the words I wrote on the page.  I want my writing to speak to them and transform them every day for the rest of their earthly timelines.

We all talk about change. We want to change our bodies, our laws, our circumstances, and our world. All most of us do is nothing. We ramble on about how we have been silenced and forgotten. How we have no effect on the world we live in. If that were true would anyone remember Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Amelia Earhart, Walt Disney, Sally Ride, and many others. They all started out as no one, misfits, everyday average joes, or janes. They didn’t care about others comfortability or put their determination for change in the hands of others. They put on their big boys/girl’s pants and made the change happen. I am going to make something happen. What about you? 

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